Highest-Rated Movies about 'Long-distance Relationship'

Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1997), The Japanese Wife (2010), Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho (2004), 2 States (2014), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Like Crazy (2011), Juliet, Naked (2018), A Lot Like Love (2005) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Long-distance Relationship movies.

#1. Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1997)

Storyline: Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.—Brian Rawnsley <rawnsleb@natlib.govt.nz>

Plot Keywords: romance, drama, immigration, urban life, cultural conflict, nostalgia, 1990s ...

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#2. The Japanese Wife (2010)

Storyline: Snehamoy Chatterjee lives a poor lifestyle on Bali Island in the West Bengal Sunderbans, along with his maternal aunt who wants him to get married to Sandhya. But Snehamoy, who teaches for a living, has entered into a long-term relationship with Japan-based Miyage, and both have made a marriage-commitment without meeting each other. Sandhya will end up getting married, giving birth to a son, getting widowed, and after the passing of her mother, will move in with them. Snehamoy will continue corresponding and even speaking with Miyage on the telephone, and it is here he will find out that she is ill, and he will consult with doctors dealing with a variety of Unani, Allopathic, Ayurvedic and Homeopathic medicines in order to find a cure for his pen-pal/wife.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Plot Keywords: romance, drama, long-distance relationship, japanese culture, indian culture, cross-cultural, marriage ...

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#3. Kumo no mukô, yakusoku no basho (2004)

Storyline: The story takes place in a alternate postwar period, in 1996, where Japan is divided. Hokkaido is ruled by the "Union" while Honshu and other southern islands are under US authority. A tall tower was built on Hokkaido, which could even be seen from Tokyo. In the summer of 1996, three middle-school students make a promise that they'll cross the border with a self-constructed plane and unravel the tower's secret, but their project was abandoned after the girl, Sayuri Sawatari, became mysteriously ill and transferred to Tokyo. Years later on the brink of another war Hiroki Fujisawa finds out that Sayuri had been in coma since then, and he asks Takuya Shirakawa to help him finding a way to wake her up.

Plot Keywords: animation, science fiction, romance, war, youth, coming of age, adventure ...

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#4. 2 States (2014)

Storyline: A story about a romantic journey of a culturally opposite couple - Krish Malhotra and Ananya Swaminathan. They meet at the IIM-Ahmedabad College and during the program they fall in love. Complications arise after the program comes to an end and they decide to get married. Krish and Ananya belong to two different states of India. Krish, a North Indian Punjabi boy from Delhi, and Ananya, a Tamilian Brahmin from Chennai. They take a conscious decision; they won't get married until their parents agree. Everything goes downhill when the parents meet. There is a cultural clash and the parents oppose the wedding. To convert their love story into a love marriage, the couple faces a tough battle in front of them. For it is easy to fight and rebel, but much harder to convince. Will Krish and Ananya's love for each other sustain the battles? Will they manage to convince their parents and make it to their wedding?

Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, bollywood, cross-cultural, marriage, family, dating ...

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#5. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

Storyline: After his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin and his 8-year-old son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie's death. Eighteen months later Sam is still grieving and can't sleep. Although Jonah misses his mother, he wants his father to get a new wife despite Sam having not even contemplated dating again. On Christmas Eve, Sam (on Jonah's initiative) ends up pouring his heart out on a national radio talk show about his magical and perfect marriage to Maggie, and how much he still misses her. Among the many women who hear Sam's story and fall in love with him solely because of it is Annie Reed, a Baltimore-based newspaper writer. Annie's infatuation with Sam's story and by association Sam himself is despite being already engaged. But Annie's relationship with her straight-laced fiancé Walter is unlike her dream love life in the movie An Affair to Remember (1957). She even writes to Sam proposing they meet atop the Empire State Building on ...

Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, romantic comedy, american film, 1990s, tom hanks ...

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#6. Like Crazy (2011)

Storyline: Anna and Jacob fall instantly in love when they meet as students at an L.A. university. But Anna is British and when graduation approaches, Anna decides to stay and violate her student visa rather than returning to England. After a visit home, she is then unable to return to the United States. While fighting customs and immigration battles, Anna and Jacob must decide if their relationship is worth the distance and the hardship.

Plot Keywords: romance, drama, long-distance relationship, youth, coming of age, american film, independent film ...

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#7. Juliet, Naked (2018)

Storyline: Annie (Rose Byrne) is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan (Chris O'Dowd) - an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke). When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its release leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself. Based on the novel by Nick Hornby, JULIET, NAKED is a comic account of life's second chances.

Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, music, drama, indie film, adaptation, novel adaptation ...

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#8. A Lot Like Love (2005)

Storyline: On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?

Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, romantic comedy, modern love, time span, coming of age, emotional turmoil ...

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#9. Forget Paris (1995)

Storyline: Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews, an American living in Paris, works for the airline Mickey flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches. The story is told in flashback by their friends at a restaurant waiting for them to arrive.

Plot Keywords: romantic, comedy, love, marriage, relationship, paris, america ...

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#10. Dear John (2010)

Storyline: South Carolina US Army Special operations soldier John is on summer leave from his German base, visiting his widowed father. Being gallant on the pier, he befriends college student Savannah, a college student, and her buddies, a terminal father and his angelic son. John falls in love with Savannah, who diagnoses his beloved, gentle but weird father as mildly autistic. He plans not to sign up again, but 9/11 changes that, and she won't wait idly while their friends desperately need help.

Plot Keywords: romance, drama, war, separation, letters, soldier, sacrifice ...

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#11. Going the Distance (2010)

Storyline: Erin has just six more weeks as an intern at the New York Sentinel before she returns to San Francisco. That's fine with Garrett since he just got out of a relationship. But their relationship blossoms and it quickly becomes something that they can't just drop in six weeks. They admit to wanting to be boyfriend/girlfriend just on opposite coasts. The distance wears on them, as with their nay-saying friends and sister, and soon they are forced to either break up or come up with a solution that has them living in the same city.

Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, long-distance relationship, adult, contemporary, american, romantic comedy ...

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#13. Overnight Delivery (1996)

Storyline: College student Wyatt (Paul Rudd) is convinced that his hometown girlfriend, Kimberly (Christine Taylor), is cheating on him. Disconsolate at a strip club, he nonetheless tries to defend the honor of Ivy (Reese Witherspoon), one of the dancers, who befriends him for his gesture. Ivy convinces Wyatt that he should send Kimberly a vicious breakup letter, which he does, by express mail. When he has second thoughts, he and Ivy hit the road to retrieve the note before it reaches its destination.

Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, youth, campus, misunderstanding, usa, 1990s ...

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#14. Milenge Milenge (2010)

Storyline: Tarot Card Reader, Sunita Rao, informs Vasant Vihar-based idealist Priya Malhotra that she will meet her soul-mate on a beach in a foreign country. While in Bangkok she meets Immy, believes he is the one, but realizes that he had wooed her by stealing her diary. She decides to test destiny by asking him to fulfill three conditions - first of which is to attend on the same floor of a hotel; second: to locate a book on numerology that contains her name & phone number; and lastly asks him to write his contact details on a 50 Rupee note. She spends the money, and the book is left at a used bookstore. If both items are located by them, they truly are meant for each other. Immy is unable to locate her on any floor in the Hotel, and both re-locate - she to Mumbai and he to America. Three years later their marriages have been arranged with Sofiya Arora and Jatin, but neither are even close to locating the book nor the 50 Rupee note.—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

Plot Keywords: romance, bollywood, indian cinema, musical, comedy, drama, romantic comedy ...

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#15. The Other End of the Line (2008)

Storyline: Priya (Shriya Saran), who lives in India but is infatuated with American culture, works at a credit card call-center. When she calls San Franciscan Granger Woodruff (Jesse Metcalfe), a romantic connection takes place, despite her engagement and Granger's girlfriend. The chemistry they feel prompts Priya to hop on a plan to California, but unforeseen obstacles will jeopardize the blossoming relationship.

Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, cross-cultural, india, usa, long-distance relationship, bollywood ...

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